Feels like 3 things in our current discourse:
- No feeling of making a difference with your work (pointlessness)
- Disingenuous workplace cultures (wE’Re a fAmiLy)
- Extremely long work hours (WFH is great but “always connected” means you’re always working)
for 3: Please don’t mix up WFH and always connected! I work from home but after my hours my work phone stays at the work desk and that’s it, I’m seeing mails and calls on the next day, that’s soon enough
I’m really not sure how to solve for 1. So much of modern white collar work is patently pointless (or counterproductive). Definitely hard to stay engaged, especially when few of the benefits of increased productivity actually accrue to the folks doing the work. The disingenuous messaging of bullet 2 often highlights the difference in priorities between those who benefit from from increased productivity and those who just, you know, end up having to work more.
To your last point, I have been WFH since 2020 and am now leaving because my company is doing RTO. For many, WFH is a huge benefit.
Yeah totally agree and I also work from home and won’t go back.
It’s just that the other side of the coin for me has been a lack of boundaries when for all intents and purposes we should all be working less.
RTO? Why the acronyms
Return to office
Corporate jargon has infected my brain
Kinda hard not to be when most people never expect anything good to ever happen again.
No shit…
This seems like the most obvious headline ever. I have my first retirement coming up in 3.5 years, and I’m holding on by the skin of my teeth. And I’m one of the lucky ones with a job that offers a flat pension at 20 years regardless of age.
Pension after 20 years of work?! That sounds soon and great! Could you maybe explain that a little more?
Probably wouldn’t be the case if people could actually afford anything with the meager wages allotted.
